This is the life and business advice that the Dr. ordered

The Chris DeBlasio Podcast

This is the life and business advice that the Dr. ordered

- [Chris] On this episode of C Level, I talked with Doctor Shelton Goode, President and CEO of Icarus Consulting.
- So Shelton, thank you for having us come out. I know a little bit of your background and today, we're gonna be talking about diversification of workplace and team building and stuff.
- Right.
- And I wanna hear it from you. So, how did you get-- Where did you come from, grew up, how did you get started, how did you get into all these?
- Okay, so, let's go backwards.
- [Chris] Yeah.
- Let's go to backwards. So I'm currently the CEO and president of Icarus Consulting. Icarus Consulting is a veteran-owned firm, and we specialize in human resource management consulting.
- [Chris] Okay.
- But our superpower is helping companies recruit in a very competitive landscape. Make sure that they get their share of the talent. But we do some a little bit better than some other folks. We also concentrate for our clients on their current workforce. So many companies are so focused on getting you know, that talent in.
- Right, right.
- It's diverse, it's young, it's people of color, it's women, and everybody's so focused on that, that sometimes their current workforce feels like they're being overlooked. So we make sure that while they're trying to get that diverse talent from the emerging workforce, that they think about and focus on their current people. And then, once they do get that workforce, that talent in, that they keep it.
- Right.
- Because it's really competitive, and it's almost cheaper and easier to poach from other companies than go out and source for new talent so we make sure that companies have an inclusive workplace which we believe is the secret sauce to retaining employees.
- Yeah, absolutely. And I love the fact that your current employees, right? That's important too.
- Yes.
- 'Cause you're bringing new talent and sometimes people that have been around for a long time, it's like, oh there's this new talent coming in, so making sure that they still feel as important.